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Pep Boys

Splendor in the Grass

Ten Favorite Metro Phoenix Sports Bars

The Olympic action ended last weekend but our three-way relationship with TV and sports won't be stopping anytime soon. Post-season baseball and the start of football lurk just around the corner, which means we're on the hunt for the best places to belly up, grab a brew and cheer on our teams. For ... More >>

ASU and Arizona Dream Big As Pac-12 Basketball Tourney Starts Today In LA

For Arizona State, it's a chance at redemption after a lost season with just ten wins (but one of those was last Sunday's stunner over Arizona). For the Wildcats, it's desperation time, as they have to win at least two games and probably three at the Pac-12 basketball tournament ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats Win Tough Road Game, Washington Huskies Loom

Arizona could have folded last night up in Pullman, Washington, traditionally a difficult road game for any team in the Pac-12. Arizona head coach Sean Miller has cobbled together a nice little team.​Jesse Perry, one of the Wildcats' key players, was saddled with his fourth foul early in the ... More >>

Matting Crowd

Devils in the Details

Arizona and ASU Softball Teams Earn Spot in Super-Regionals This Weekend

Both Arizona major-college softball programs rolled through their respective NCAA Regionals over the weekend in Tempe and Tucson, the first of two steps necessary to earn a coveted spot in the College World Series.Freshman ace Dallas Escobedo leads Devils to Super Regionals​ Neither squad rea ... More >>

The 10 Best Canned Craft Beers

​Bad beer comes in cans. There's no denying it -- images of sloppy NASCAR fans and drunken frat boys have done much to taint the perception of canned beer, as has the mass-market swill that's often inside. But in recent years there's been a canning revolution -- a "canversion," if you will -- am ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats Upset By USC, Big Game Tomorrow Vs UCLA

We knew it was bound to happen, that the Arizona Wildcats weren't going to run the table in the Pac-10 Conference. But last night's 65-58 loss in Los Angeles to USC still came as something of a disappointment.   Tough night for UA's Derrick Williams in La-La Town​The Trojans did a grea ... More >>

Hell to Pay

Does the season matter for the probation-slapped Devils?

Arizona Wildcats Romp Over Woeful ASU In Ugly Tempe Contest

It wasn't even a sellout at the Wells Fargo Arena last night for the rivalry game between the ASU Sun Devils and the Arizona Wildcats, and probably with good reason.   Arizona's Derrick Williams: One of the Pac-10's best​The Wildcats do have a very nice team in this, their rebound year ... More >>

Arizona Wins 3-OT Thriller Over Cal As ASU Slips Further Into Abyss

One of the very best college basketball games of the season aired on Saturday night, ending with the Arizona Wildcats nipping the Cal Golden Bears 107-105 in three thrilling overtimes.​Saturday night's road win made it a rare sweep of the Bay Area schools (Cal and Stanford), and kept the surprisin ... More >>

Arizona Slips Into First Place In Pac-10 Basketball As ASU Loses Yet Again

Momentous happenings in men's Pac-10 basketball as the conference's second half got underway last night with the Arizona teams on the road in the Bay Area.Arizona's Derrick Williams​For starters, the Arizona Wildcats took over sole possession of first place by virtue of a tough win over the Stanfo ... More >>

Arizona's Pac-10 Men's Basketball Teams Go In Different Directions Over Weekend

Terrible and strange weekend that it was, life (by which we mean sports) didn't stop because of the Tucson massacre, what with the National Football League wild-card and Pacific-10 basketball games carrying on as scheduled.​We're here to talk about the Arizona schools and how they fared at home ag ... More >>

Big Daddy Cain

Stanford’s tall timbers visit Wells Fargo Arena

Spring Fling

Two hotshot ASU QBs vie for the starting job

Sun Devils Men's Basketball About To Embark On Big Pac-10 Weekend Here

Pac-10 men's basketball supposedly is in a down cycle this season, what with UCLA and other squads losing a bunch of underclassmen to the professional ranks. ​One of those schools is ASU, which saw Jeff Pendergraf and the great James Harden split to the land of the big bucks (especially ... More >>

ASU Women's Basketball vs. Vanguard (Preseason)

Geek Beat: Transformers 2 Arizona Premiere Epic FAIL

A massive crowd turned out for last night's Arizona premiere of the new sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Fans lined up in rows that snaked through the Tempe Marketplace Harkins Theater, spilling out onto the sidewalk and clear around the other side of the building. Not everyone  ... More >>

ASU Sun Devils Live to See Another Day at College World Series

Things looked mighty bleak midway through Arizona State's baseball game against North Carolina yesterday afternoon. Then, down 4-0 in an elimination game at Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium, the Sun Devils loaded the bases for previously unsung outfielder Kole Calhoun. Calhoun deposited a pitch i ... More >>

Lame Ducks

Devils take on an Oregon team that hasn’t played in a generation

Arizona May Need Win Over ASU Tomorrow to Get to Big Dance

Time was that the Arizona Wildcats hated the Pac-10 postseason basketball tournament with a passion. That was when the `Cats routinely dominated league play, finishing first or second seemingly every year after now-retired Lute Olson revved up the program in the mid-1980s. Olson and his minions cons ... More >>

ASU Men's B-Ball in Freefall as Season Winds Down

The less said about the ASU men's basketball team's effort against an average Stanford team in last night's loss at Wells Fargo Arena, the better. Hard to believe it's been just a month since the Sun Devils humilated the Cardinal by 30 points up in Palo Alto, California. This tim ... More >>

ASU Sun Devils Try to Finish Regular Season on a High Note

Coming off two spirit-crushing overtime losses last weekend in Washington, the Arizona State Sun Devils try to regroup tonight against Stanford in a 6:30 game in Tempe. ASU's Pac-10 championship hopes went out the window with the back-to-back defeats, and now the team is playing for a decent ... More >>

ASU Nips Arizona Wildcats in Classic Battle at Super-Loud Home Gym

A few sights, sounds and other memories from last night's thrilling ASU win over Arizona at the Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe: It was the loudest crowd we've heard at the campus arena since the mid- to late-1970s, when both state schools usually had excellent, evenly matched squads. The din w ... More >>

Weekend Sweep by Devils and 'Cats of LA Schools Sets Up Monster Matchup

What was most (maybe the only thing) memorable about last night's Pac-10 slugfest between ASU and Southern Cal happened with about a minute left. USC head coach Tim Floyd (the oddly gesticulating gent in the photo) took such umbrage with a pivotal call against his squad that he felt ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats Kick Butt in Entertaining Vegas Bowl Game

No question, University of Arizona football has been lousy at best for about a decade now. Alums like ourselves who pay attention to such weighty things quietly were suffering through yet another mediocre season until -- Hallelujah! -- the Wildcats throttled ASU down in Tucson a few weeks ago and th ... More >>

A Touch of Madness

Hoops double-dip has a Big Dance feel

ASU Play-By-Play Great Tom Dillon Dies

This has been a terribly tough year for local sportswriters and, now, announcers. Veteran scribes Bob Moran and Bob Eger died earlier in 2008 -- Moran after a long illness and Eger after a short one. Both had been part of the fabric of the local sports scene for as long as most of us could remember ... More >>

Friday Night Lights Frenzy Starts This Afternoon

  It's one of our favorite times of the year, and not just because of all the great food and the blessed relief that temps under 100 degrees can bring. No, we're talking about the Arizona high school football championships, and all the goofy color and pagentry that the homestretch games can pro ... More >>

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Valley sportswriters take another body shot with death of Bob Eger

Sun Angels

The gospel according to Herb

Milling Around

Avenue attitude

Koetter Carve-Up

No, this ain't some artist's rendering of Dirk Koetter post-whacking; it's the scary new statue of Pat Tillman at You Pee Stadium

Tough Coach

Another winning season ends for Pat Murphy and his baseball team. Now, it's ASU management's turn at bat

Fire HIM!

A mediocre record and coddling thugs on his team didn't keep ASU football coach Dirk Koetter from getting a big raise

Commentary

Night Moves

Run or walk for the sake of art

Destiny's Child

Ike Diogu's the Pac-10's player of the year. Will he stay at ASU or go to the NBA for millions?

Vanishing Act

Little-known revision of state law would allow Cardinals to play in BOB

Kitch in Sync

The same competitive fire that took Kitch Kitchen from the war-zone streets of Newark to basketball stardom has now made her the Valley's hottest rapper.

Flashes

Flashes

Flashes

Flashes

Pic Hits for the week

Pic Hits for the week

BROCK SOLID

ASU'S BASEBALL WIZARD LOVES TO PLAY HARDBALL. THIS YEAR, HE'S HAD TO.

EXCUSE ME, IS THIS A UNIVERSITY OR A PRISON FARM?